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The Member News page is dedicated to all of our members, past, present, and future. We hope everyone will send in their stories, updates, and especially their bragging so everyone can know each other better and appreciate everyone's progress.

If you have an entry for Member News, send it to Lisa at fishndog@gmail.com

And make sure to check out the Brag Board at the CACM building. The latest and greatest pictures and awards are there for all to see.

Congratulations to everyone!

This is Chelsey. She is one of the original agility dogs from Muscatine. She and her handler, Chris, started training here long before the new CACM building was even a thought. Chelsey is retired now but will always have a spot of honor with us.

How about this update from Sharon dated April 9, 2007:

Along with all the awesome agility dogs that attend classes in Muscatine, there are also a very impressive group of obedience dogs. I just had to post for myself and some of the others.

The last two weekends have been obed. trials for Clinton Iowa KC in DeWitt and the ICDOC trials in Amana. My MACH Simon has returned to the obed. ring to work on OTCH points., Sat. March 31, in DeWitt, Simon won the Utility B class and was the High Combined scoring dog. Last weekend in Amana he was the High Scoring Sheltie all three days, placed 2nd in Utility on Sat., won Utility on Sunday and placed 4th in Open to go High Combined again. We picked up a total of 39 pts in 2 weekends, not too bad. We are at 69 pts (need 100), and still need a 1st in Open B - which I'm sure we can pull off.

Sharon K and Amos picked up 3 UDX legs in 3 tries, which means he qualified in both Utility B and Open B all 3 trials Sharon had him entered in. Amos now has 6 and needs just for more for his UDX title. And he placed in Open at DeWitt to pick up an OTCH pt. You have to start somewhere.

Sandi and little Cody earned their UD title the weekend before DeWitt, then won the Utility A class and placed 2nd in Open B Sat. at DeWitt.

Alyce and the flatcoats have had a good year also. Bogie earned his UD earlier this spring. I know she has also picked up rally titles and novice obed. legs on the other black dogs. Sorry that I get them confused Alyce!! :-)

Oh, I almost forgot about my young Rudy. He earned his Rally Advanced title at the Amanas. If he hadn't barked in joy when going over one little jump he could have placed a bit higher than 4th!! <VBG>

Here's an update from May 6th 2007 sent in by Marcia;

Breeze and I finished our MACH this weekend at the Northwest Obedience Club
of Chicago. She kept the suspense up tho...didn't finish until this
morning!! Friday was very hectic...Breeze ran jww first and qualified
with 8 points. Standard was much later and a very nice flowing course by
Will. Breeze ran it beautifully...right up to the point that I put in a
poorly placed rear cross, causing her to spin in front of a tunnel. Other
than that the run was perfect. No MACH on friday.

Saturday's standard course was JUST AWFUL! We ran
the course clean...except for the missed first pole! There were so many
dogs that either just didn't see the weaves or dove in somewhere past the
entry..or were so shut down that it took another 3 obstacles to get speed up.

Jumpers was very nice and Breeze qualified with 9 points.

The pressure was really on today(Sunday). She ran standard clean....Will K.'s
course...and earned 12 points. I was a wreck by the time she ran in
jumpers. It seemed very quiet when I started...but Breeze ran
beautifully...only one nerveracking wide turn nearly into a tunnel...but she
finished clean!

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